Captive Authentication feature in f21

Ryan Lerch rlerch at redhat.com
Tue Sep 23 16:54:15 UTC 2014


On 09/23/2014 12:33 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Been trying out F21 on my new laptop, and saw the nifty new captive auth
>> feature when logging into wifi at starbucks this morning.
> You live in the greater Boston area and that's the best coffee you can
> find?  That makes me sad.
>
>> I did notice that the name of the application (as it appears in the gmenu up
>> near the activities button) is "Captive Authentication". To a new user, that
>> may not know exactly what captive auth is, this may be worrying or confusing
>> -- "what about my authentication is being captured?"
> It should be "All your network are belong to us".
>
>> Perhaps changing this to something like "Network Login" work work better?
> More seriously, this sounds like a good change to make.
>
> josh
Filed a bug for this upstream too, btw:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737198

cheers,
ryanlerch


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